The Acco Festival of Alternative Theatre will take place on October 11-14, 2014 in the most important cultural centers in the city.Following the successful project organized in 2011 by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, “Romanian Theatre Today - Acting. Dramaturgy, Directing, Space at the Tel Aviv University”, the Israeli producers have decided to stage the Romanian play “Stop the tempo” by Gianina Carbunariu at the 2014 edition of the festival, with the support of RCI Tel Aviv. During the festival, there will be 10 performances of the play, in Hebrew, at the Acco Jam Moadon. The cast of the Israeli production consists of young Israeli actors, the author having adapted the original text for the Israeli public.
Stop the Tempo (Israel, 2014) drama, by Gianina Carbunariu
Director: Roey Maliach Reshef
Producer: Daniel Botzer
Cast: Neta Bar Rafael, Yulia Plotkin and Nimrod Ronen
The show will be performed in Hebrew
10.10.2014, at 12:00 (preview show), 11.10.2014, at 21:00 and 12-14.10.2014, at 13:00, 17:00 and 21:00, Acco Jam Moadon
Tickets: 04-9552541 (Festival box office)
At a time of crisis, three young people detach themselves from the inauthentic reality in which they live: the rat race for self-fulfillment, love, and career. Each one goes on a journey seeking a human connection. Joint together entirely by happenstance, they discover their common ground and set out to make a small, private revolution of their own, to put an end to all the falseness in their surroundings.
Gianina Carbunariu, director and playwright, was born in 1977 in Romania. She studied French & Romanian Literature and subsequently focused on her work as a director. In 2002 she initiated together with other directors the DramAcum project, for which she was awarded the Prize of the International Association of Romanian Theatre Critics. Since 2003 she has taken part in numerous festivals, writing and directorial workshops, in locations such as Romania, Poland, Germany, Ireland, Bulgaria, France, Macedonia and.the US. In 2004 she was a guest of the International Residency Programme of the Royal Court, London.
Her plays have circulated throughout Europe at theatre festivals such as: New Plays from Europe - Theaterbiennale of the Staatstheater, Wiesbaden; New Drama Festival, Moscow; New Drama Festival, Bratislava; Festival Francophonie Metissee, Paris; Festival Premieres, Strasbourg.
Writer: “Kebab”, “Stop the Tempo”, “DJ Pirat”, “All Those Guys Look Like Our Parents”, “Honey”, “Irealities from the Immediate Wild East”.
Director: “Sado-Maso Blues Bar”, “Terrorism”, “mady-baby.edu”, “Luck Helps Those Who Dare”, “Stop the Tempo”, “My name is Isbjorg. I am a lioness”, “Ostinato”.
The Acco Festival for Alternative Theatre is one of the leading Israeli cultural events. The Festival is an annual event which lasts for three to five days during the Succot holiday. The performances take place both in close spaces like the excavated crusaders' hall and the open air, at archeological sites or in the port area overlooking the Haifa bay.
This year’s edition of the festival will host international performances by authors from Germany- with the support of Goethe Institute- and Romania- with the support of RCI Tel Aviv.
